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Assuming losing weight is important to you, the good news is that you can burn fat even while you sleep. Both the amount of sleep and the quality of your sleep can have an impact on the calories you burn and the most amount of energy use takes place when you enter REM sleep. So […]

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I spent over a year having just cold showers when I lived in a share house in the cold mountains of Venezuela. Now, where I live in Mexico, cold showers are sometimes necessary because the gas runs out or the mild winds are blowing out the gas in the water heater. I confess, it’s rough. […]

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In the past 12 years, The Pioneer Woman has built an empire on cooking and writing about food in the most relatable way. During that time her fans have watched her children turn from cute little kids to full-grown teenagers who do things like walk through the door with 12 hungry friends 10 minutes before lunch. Drummond handled that particular event with red Solo cups and fried chicken from the deli, and generally she seems to be really enjoy being constantly surrounded by huge numbers of teenagers.

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My youngest just officially left the toddler years for that “threenager” year, but the struggles of feeding a toddler are not too far away from my memory. Toddlers bounce from happy and inquisitive to tired and cranky easily without the capacity to tell us that they are hungry and headed for a meltdown. All of this is to say that after a day, or a week, or even hours of extraordinary emotional highs and lows and generally wrestling a wild, stubborn 2-year-old, you are tired. And you all still need to eat.

Here are 10 of our go-to dinners for the nights when growing up has really worked up your toddler’s appetite and you are too tired to cook an elaborate meal.

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From Apartment Therapy → Why You Should Keep Your Clothes in the Freezer

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The first time I saw a fish spatula, it was on a friend’s wedding registry. We were just out of college and still on a steady diet of takeout and turkey sandwiches. I rolled my eyes at the idea that anyone who could hardly boil water would need a tool dedicated to only flipping fillets of seafood.

Oh, how wrong I was.

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Here’s a common dilemma. You find something fabulous to make for dinner — maybe a quick weeknight stir-fry, or a more luxurious weekend pasta dish. You get everything ready and then say, “Wait — what am I going to serve with this? What side dishes go?” This is a question we hear a lot from our readers, so today let me walk you through 13 ideas for simple side dishes that go well with nearly any meal.

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There are two kinds of people in this world: the gadget minimalists and the gadget maximalists. That simple designation will define how you feel about America’s hottest new appliance: the Instant Pot.

(Have you heard of it? Of course you have.)

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Whether you’re renting and can’t do a lot of permanent damage, or you own a house but just don’t have a budget to tear everything out and start from scratch, you can still make impactful changes and additions that will make your kitchen quite a bit nicer to look at (and nicer to use, too).

Here are some of the best things you can do.

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Trader Joe’s has such a cult following that a new store opening brings front-page news and traffic jams. Our readers are not immune to TJ’s mania, and many of you consider Trader Joe’s an essential resource in stocking your pantry with staples and treats.

We read through past Trader Joe’s posts and comments (thousands of them!) to sift out some of our readers’ favorites. There was small consensus, with ardent devotees of many different products, but a few themes emerged and one product was the big winner at the top of the list. Can you guess what it is?

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